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Friday, November 29, 2013

I hit a wall with my health and got sick this week ...ick! :) However, not sick enough that I could not continue to create! I cannot fathom a day without creating....I'd be twitching to jump out of bed or at least in my mind LOL .

Since I was not feeling well..I figured why not create PL cards for the days when its not golden and smelling of roses. I have been through so much these last 3 years and my journey with doctors , IVs and tests are still not over. I really needed cards that allowed me to express the bad days and moments in my life that my family and I are going through. As miserable as I was feeling yesterday...these cards did bring a smile to my face. I put in an entire day to creating these cards...I have issues committing to SAVE LOL...SAVE is like glue :)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

It’s
the last week of November and I cannot wait for December! :) This year I
am trying my hand at a December Daily (DD) album. I need to make it
interesting so I’ll stick with it LOL. So much to do (crafting!) and so
little time. I need another me in the studio. :)

I really cannot
wait for my DD items to arrive from Pretty Little Studio (what a CUTE shop!) and my album
from Studio Calico. I have been watching all the ladies in the December
Classroom creating their album covers and pages, and all I get to do is
watch, drool and admire their gorgeous work. :) They truly are
beautiful covers! I wish I could work on mine, but I’m blocked until the
UPS guy arrives :)

Until
then I’ve found myself playing around with patterns and shapes in
Photoshop and in my Silhouette Studio Designer. I figure while I am
playing why not start designing some Christmas cards for my DD album as
well as my Project Life album? I have an idea of the colors I want to
use; from there everything else will fall into place…yes it will! I
decided to take a shot at it!

click the image for download

click image for the PDF

It’s lots of work but tons of fun,
especially when it’s done and you see your work. As a test I put a
screenshot on one of the PL groups. My 3x4 Christmas cards have received
a wonderful welcome. :) I was really surprised and humbled by everyone
wanting them. I cannot wait to share them with all of you and see how
you use them.

The
effort hasn’t been entirely without frustration. I still am trying to
master this new program, SSD. It has its limits that I hope one day they
will fix through a software upgrade. It is not completely flexible
like Photoshop. Mind you, I cannot print and cut in Photoshop. When that
day comes my life will be complete… LOL. I will go back and forth with
hopes that SSD will catch up with PS. :)

I will make the cards
available in PDF for those without print and cut and for those that use
SSD or SD I will have the print and cut file. I would really appreciate
it if you could pin the cards to your boards and share the link on your FB
walls.

Thank you so much for your support! I hope you enjoy adding them to your albums as much as I enjoyed creating them! :)

Friday, November 15, 2013

I can't think of a better way to spend cold winter days than staying
inside the studio and crafting ...creating :). I have a couple projects on the go,
and this year I trying my hand at the December Daily! However I'm also
going to get my family working on it :) This way it makes it the Family
December Daily :)

Here is a peek at one of my pages. Perfecting timing when I received M4M digi stamps! Thank you Sammie :) Adorable as always :)

I
colored my wise-boy in with earth color Copics. I used the YR family
but my base was earth family. The background of my page is embossed
with Detail White Embossing powder (my favorite).
The cards are journaling Christmas cards by Bazzill Basics. The dies
(poinsettias, tag, holly, Christmas star and stable) are from
Silhouette, which I cut using my Cameo. The sentiment was a pop up sticker from Me & My Big Ideas Soft Spoken.
I have lots of space to journal and add several snapshots!

2013copyright Paola Jofre M4M Design Team

Well, better get back to it I am running out of time to get it done. The book should be ready to go Dec 1st :)

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

I cannot begin to tell you how much fun I am having creating my pages for Project Life! So much fun that it has distracted me from making Christmas cards for the craft fairs LOL. I cannot resist! :)

The cards are yummy, the embellishments are eye candy and the possibilities are endless! One of the elements that I love to use in my pages are digi stamps. Always printing, cutting and coloring :) . Aaahhh now that's the life!

Thought I would share one of my coloring moments with you. :) In this video I am coloring the digi "Gaze" from Some Odd Girl. The prompt for the first two weeks is my favorite book...mine is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I went on a hunt to find digis that best represented Jane Eyre. I went over to the forum at SOG and asked for some help as I was torn between a few of them and thankfully I was rescued. :) Thank you! :)
How did I overlook this beautiful digi! She is perfect!

If you would like to follow along and join in on the Project Life prompts hosted by My Whimsical Little World stop on over to the FB group!

Monday, November 11, 2013

I
have always been interested in scrap-booking but have never been able
to commit to working through an entire album. It just seemed like a
lot of work. I figured
that I would easily lose interest....about after a day lol. I know I
am not alone in this regard. Come on now... time to fess up. :)

Finally
a system for those of us who have little time and, let's admit it,
short attention spans. When I picture scrap-booking in my mind I just
see lots of repetitious
cutting and framing. It's tedious work and, no offense to serious
scrap-bookers, a little boring. Well let me tell you that Project life
is anything but boring! Unleash your creativity! Let it out! Spend just
half an hour or a full week on a page. In either
case, you will create something amazing, and you won't be bored for a
second. The sky's the limit with this system! There is so much variety
and style. You can use pockets of sequins for some glimmer, or just
add a single picture, or maybe add one or two
pictures with the rest journaling. You can construct it whatever way
you like! I really do love the freedom of just letting go. It makes it
feel a lot like mixed media...just let it go and create! :) I like that!
:)

I
will be giving out bi-weekly prompts and sharing my process for
creating pages using photographs, digi stamps, and embellishments. I
will share info on the
tools I use to make it even easier to create beautiful pages. I will
also give tips on organizing your Project Life stash. If you would like
to follow along, head on over to the Facebook group, or if you like you
can follow along here and comment or post your
questions. :) I would love to hear from you and see some of your
pages! :)

Here we go!
First 2 pages

Prompt --My Favorite Book and Reasons Why. I have been wanting so long to journal my thoughts and feelings about my favorite book and what it means to me. I cannot
wait to share it with all of you.

If
you don't have this kit you can still follow along and find these
colors in your stash of paper and cut to size. You will need 4x6 cards
and 3x4
cards amount depends on what types of pages you are using.

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I'm a mom to 4 amazing kids and a wife to an incredibly handsome man! Owner of My Whimsical Little World Art Studio. In the spring of 2013 I became a Certified Copic Designer and a Copic Dealer. I teach mix media, drawing, card design and of course we have many classes on Copic coloring. I am also very excited as this year I have expanded the studio and now carry scrapbooking/crafting supplies.